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The Agonies of a soul departing out of time into eternity : A few lines occasioned by the untimely end of John Harrington, who is to be executed at Cambridge this day, being the 17th of March, 1757, for the murder, of Paul Learnard [i.e., Learned], the 1st of September last.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by John Green and Joseph Russell], [1757]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; (1/2°)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40872. ^A478749
General noteVerse in eighteen numbered stanzas; first line: And is my life already past?
General noteText in two columns; relief cut of a hanging (Reilly 1182) at head. The same cut appeared in a pamphlet (Evans 7796) printed by Green and Russell in 1756.
References Bristol B1849
References Shipton & Mooney 40872
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1078
References Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 481
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40872).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1757.

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